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The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory

“This outstanding collection contains really valuable entries by a great many leading lights in the field. An extremely useful resource for anyone wanting to acquaint themselves with the central issues in ethical theory today.”

—Russ Shafer-Landau, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Praise for the First Edition

"The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory is, for its size, perhaps the best single-volume resource guide to contemporary ethical theory."

—Robert B. Louden, APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Spring 2001

“Written by distinguished philosophical experts, these pieces address a full range of issues in ethical and meta-ethical theory, as well as giving a considered voice to the various defenders of ethical anti-theory. As a whole they testify to and exemplify the current vibrancy and richness of work in ethical theory.”

—David Archard, Queen’s University Belfast

“For students, this Guide provides helpful introductions to themes and topics which they are to study in more detail, and lucid surveys of other aspects of ethical theory. It will also be read with profit by academics unfamiliar with the field; some of the papers are not just guides, but original contributions, to the subject.”

—Antony Duff, University of Stirling and University of Minnesota

“The Guide provides a wide-ranging survey of the major topics in contemporary ethical theory and includes a good amount of new and important work. It should be of use to anyone wanting acquaintance with the subject in its current state.”

—Barbara Herman, University of California at Los Angeles

Hugh LaFollette (Edited by), Ingmar Persson (Edited by)

9781444330090, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 19 July 2013

520 pages
24.1 x 16.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.771 kg

Building on the strengths of the highly successful first edition, the extensively updated Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory presents a complete state-of-the-art survey, written by an international team of leading moral philosophers.

  • A new edition of this successful and highly regarded Guide, now reorganized and updated with the addition of significant new material
  • Includes 21 essays written by an international team of leading philosophers
  • Extensive, substantive essays develop the main arguments of all the leading viewpoints in ethical theory
  • Essays new to this edition cover evolution and ethics, capability ethics, virtues and consequences, and the implausibility of virtue ethics

Notes on Editors and Contributors vii

Introduction 1
Hugh LaFollette and Ingmar Persson

Part I Metaethics and Moral Epistemology

1 Moral Realism 17
Michael Smith

2 Relativism 43
Simon Blackburn

3 Moral Agreement 59
Derek Parfit

4 Divine Command Theory 81
Philip L. Quinn

5 Moral Intuition 103
Jeff McMahan

Part II Factual Background of Ethics

6 Ethics and Evolution 123
Richard Joyce

7 Psychological Egoism 148
Elliott Sober

8 The Science of Ethics 169
Ron Mallon and John M. Doris

9 The Relevance of Responsibility to Morality 197
Ingmar Persson

Part III Normative Ethics

10 Act-Utilitarianism 221
R.G. Frey

11 Rule-Consequentialism 238
Brad Hooker

12 Nonconsequentialism 261
F.M. Kamm

13 Intuitionism 287
David McNaughton and Piers Rawling

14 Kantianism 311
Thomas E. Hill Jr

15 Contractarianism 332
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord

16 Rights 354
L.W. Sumner

17 Libertarianism 373
Jan Narveson

18 Virtue Ethics 394
Michael Slote

19 Capability Ethics 412
Ingrid Robeyns

20 Feminist Ethics 433
Alison M. Jaggar

21 Continental Ethics 461
William R. Schroeder

Index 487

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